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An Analysis Of The Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 641 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the jungle, finding food, and remaining a functional group.
The novel's main focus is on Ralph and his experiences on the island.
As leader of the group, Ralph has a great deal of responsibility and must learn
how to work with this responsibility. Through the course of the story, Ralph
changes from an adolescent child to a mature person, but ends up breaking down
at the end of the novel. This aspect of Ralph's character is a way that Golding
depicts human behavior in society, which is the main theme of the book.
As the novel begins, Ralph is portrayed as being a normal adolescent who
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Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver And Swift's Separate Personalities
Number of Words: 354 / Number of Pages: 2
... is in inverse proportion to the amount of their corruption.
Similarly, the Brobdingnagians find Gulliver's culture to be too violent for the size of its people, and Gulliver's pride in describing the English is offset by his puniness. Swift characterizes the giants of Book II to be imperfect but extremely moral, possibly the ideal for how a society could be in Swift's (or our) time.
In Book III, swift satirizes the philosophical movements of rational thought that were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. The overkill of geometry and other systems being used by the Laputans (to everyone's disadva ...
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Comparison Between Brave New World And Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 1514 / Number of Pages: 6
... a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no
longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture
with his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in
common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive
approach to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of
various methods of escape from reality is shown to be a path to discovery.
In Brave New World, the main characters of Bernard Marx and the "Savage"
boy John both come to realize the faults with their ...
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Saint Augustine: Confessions
Number of Words: 1992 / Number of Pages: 8
... Time gives man a time frame. That time frame is life. Time is everything.
I’m sure that if you asked any person what time is, they would respond by saying some thing about minutes and seconds. Mankind, unfortunately, sees time as an object. The human mind has the tendency to make everything objective. We have even made objects of God and his holy son, despite the commandment in Exodus, which forbids it. This is all great, but the question remains; What is time? In this paper, I hope to achieve some understanding of this question by refering to Chapter 11 of .
In this chapter, Augustine attempt ...
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Man's Journey Into Self In The Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
Number of Words: 1033 / Number of Pages: 4
... further up the Congo, he feels like he is traveling back through time. He sees the unsettled Wilderness and feel the darkness of it's solitude. Marlow comes across simpler cannibalistic cultures along the banks. The deeper into the jungle he goes, the more regressive the inhabitants seem.
Kurtz had lived in the Congo, and was separated from his own culture for quite some time. He had once been considered an honorable man, but the jungle changed him greatly. Here, secluded from the rest of his own society, he discovered his evil side and became corrupted by his power and solitude. Here, secl ...
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Summary Of 1984
Number of Words: 838 / Number of Pages: 4
... but he knew there was nothing he could do. He had heard of an
anti-Party organization called the Brotherhood, but there was no way of knowing
if it really existed. He didnąt know if anyone felt the same way he did, but he
was sure there must be.
The Party was reconstructing society as a whole, and no one seemed to
notice. it was done so systematically and effectively, it was hard to believe
the world had ever been otherwise. Children were raised to love Big Brother (the
human face the Party took on). They were taught to turn anyone in who showed
signs of deviation from the Party, even their own p ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What A Change!
Number of Words: 915 / Number of Pages: 4
... one of the central legacies
of American Puritanism, using the plight of Hester Prynne and Arthur
Dimmesdale to illustrate the conflict between the desire to confess and the
necessity of self-concealment. Hawthorne grew up with his two sisters and
their widowed mother, and an uncle saw to his education at Bowdoin College.
In 1852, Hawthorne wrote the campaign biography of Franklin Pierce, an old
college friend. The best of Hawthorn's early fiction was gathered in
Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Snow-Image. These
capture the complexity's of the New England Puritan heritage. H ...
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Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
Number of Words: 494 / Number of Pages: 2
... had a chance to strike. Such an organization already exists. Its code name: RAINBOW…
John Clark, the well-known maser of secret operational missions, is about to face the world’s greatest fear- and his own- in Tom Clancy’s, Rainbow Six. As the Newly named head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, Clark is looking forward to really sinking his teeth into a new mission. But the opportunities start building faster and thicker than anyone could have expected. Is there a connection between all these incidents? Is he being tested? With the help of close ass ...
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Body For Life
Number of Words: 1248 / Number of Pages: 5
... smaller meals a day, each containing a "portion" of carbohydrates and proteins. A portion is measured as the size of the palm of your hand. So, an equivalent size of chicken is a breast the size of your hand. These meals are spaced out over equal time periods. Consuming six smaller meals speeds up your metabolism, because your body doesn’t get a chance to stop digesting. Also, incorporated in the meals are two to four servings of vegetables or salads. Water is also a major factor in the diet. 8. Here is a sample day in the program: 8am- Glass of cold water, Egg Omelet (1 whole egg, 4 egg whites) w/sa ...
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Adam Smith's Wealth Of Nations
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... used for exchange such as cattle, salt, or sugar. Metals became the
preferred common commodity because they were non-perishable and could be
divided. Metals were first used as crude bars of iron or copper with
richer nations using gold and silver. Eventually, the bars evolved into
money as we know it today, stamped by public office known as mint.
This first portion of Wealth of Nations struck me as a mini course in
basic economics. However, given the time period it was written, it did
give me an insight into how our own country prospered so greatly in such a
short time using na ...
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